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Show f streets. The meetings were so largely j attended that the authorities closed I tho halls after they were filled to prevent pre-vent overcrowding Speakers urged the Socialists not to offer reslstencc o tho police. Sharply worded resolutions resolu-tions of protest wero adopted. In tho suburbs of Berlin forty meetings meet-ings were held In crowded halls. The majority were peaceably conducted, con-ducted, but In Rixdorf, a southern suburb su-burb of nearly 100,000, an immense crowd gatherd in the public square and listened to speeches by several leaders. A police lioutenant called on the people to disperse but they refused to obey. Tin police thereupon tried to brenk up the meeting and some of the crowd responded with a shower of stones. After the meetlnps large processions paraded tnrough the principal prin-cipal streets, singing the working-men's working-men's Marseillaise. Some of them tried to reach the central sections about the Schloss Plat but the police 'held the approaches and dispersed the crowd without serious difficulty. Later Lat-er th police ordered a crowd composed com-posed largely of youths at tho Kron Prln;:en bridge to disperse, but the officers were greeted with shouts of "bloodhounds" and a shower of atons. An officer ordered the men to ; charge with drawn arms. At EFBen several socialists or their supporters received cuts but no one j wjs dangerously injured. UPROAR OF PROTEST BY SOCIALISTS Berlin, Feb. 13. Demonstrations by Socialists throughout the kingdom after af-ter mass meetings held today to pro-tost pro-tost agnlnwt the nniTrago bill, resulted in serious affrays between the demonstrators dem-onstrators and tbe police in many places. In Berlin svpral pollcomen were severely woirnded by stones thrown by rioters, and scores of Socialist So-cialist supporters received serious injuries in-juries from sabres of the police. Reports from places outside of Berlin Ber-lin givft,a number of casualties. The worst rtffalr occurred at Neumunster, In Holf.ein where a worklnrman was mortally w-oundod by a knife through the lungs?; another's hand was cut olT. while a third lost an ear. At Halle after the close of the meetings, meet-ings, 2.000 Socialists attacked the police, po-lice, who drew their sabres and wounded many. At Koenlgsberg, where Ihe Socialists returned In a body from surwrhan aieetings, the police po-lice in attempting to divert the crowds into the side streets used their side arms. They also made a number num-ber of arrests. At Dulsberg, on the Rhine. Socialists Social-ists in a series of street denxn6tra-ili denxn6tra-ili ns, came Into collision wk,i the po-lie po-lie . The letter used their sabres and several manlfestants were cut and bruised. At Cologne huge crowds assembled !n Cathedral srair.re Intending to march to the meeting place In the su-bv.rbs, su-bv.rbs, but strong cordons of pollct. held the chief thoroughfares and forced forc-ed tho crowds to take to the side ii i i ,- i |
